The Craft of Acting

Geoffrey Blake — Forrest Gump, Contact, The Man in the High Castle — will work with you to bring truth and authenticity to your performances, develop your own creative process, and build the foundation for a lasting career as an actor.

This workshop is perfect for:

• Actors who are serious about deepening their craft and pursuing more truthful performances
• Performers ready to strengthen their discipline, focus, and work ethic
• Artists who are interest in applying the ideas of Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler to create their own technique
• Actors seeking personalized feedback in a small, focused group

From the moment you arrive, you are working among peers. No lectures. No passive note-taking. No watching from the sidelines. Just the work, in real time, alongside nine other actors, with Geoffrey in the room with you.

What we will explore:

• The Truth
  Geoffrey helps actors ask the questions that shape a performance across stage and screen: What does your character want? What do they really want? How does your character serve the story
• Out of Your Head. Into Your Soul
  You never want to act what you think. You want to act what you feel. Acting is doing and being. Through relaxation and emotional excersises, you connect with your body, your instrument and bring truth to the work.
• Building an Inner Life
  ‍Sense memory and active imagination exercises develop emotional depth and specificity. Autenticity is the key to a life-long career tools for building layered, personal, and truthful performances
• Scene Study & Coaching
  Scene work and monlogue work is where your talent grows. You take risks. You get real adjustments. You fail, refine, and go again, in real time. You build your actor's tool kit
• Professional Perspective: Conversations about career direction, longevity, and next steps as a working actor

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By the end of this workshop, participants will:

• Strengthen their discipline and approach to the craft
• Develop a deeper connection to emotional truth in performance
• Gain practical tools for preparation, imagination, and scene work
• Receive personalized coaching in a focused, small-group setting
• Leave with greater clarity about their work and growth as an actor